Staff Software Engineer

DAT•Seattle, WA

22h•Hybrid

About The Position

DAT Solutions is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be the first engineer in a new function within our Integrations organization: platform and developer experience for third-party integrators. Our integrations teams connect DAT to the systems brokers, shippers, and carriers run their businesses on, from TMS platforms to partner APIs. Today, no one owns the experience of building on DAT from the outside: the SDKs, documentation, observability, and tooling integrators depend on. You will. You will report to the Engineering Manager of Integrations, work alongside our inbound and outbound integration teams, and partner closely with Product, Customer Support, and Engineering across the organization. The function starts small, and its size and shape will grow with the impact you demonstrate.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
8+ years of experience in software development, with deep backend and full-stack experience in TypeScript and Node.js
Demonstrated experience designing and operating APIs consumed by external developers or partners
A track record of taking ideas from prototype to production
Demonstrated history of leading complex, multi-team technical initiatives
Expertise in REST API design and the surrounding practices: OpenAPI specifications, versioning, authentication and authorization, and backward compatibility
Experience with Scrum/Agile SDLC and CI/CD
Outstanding interpersonal and written communication skills; adept at working with professionals from a wide range of disciplines

Nice To Haves

Experience building and maintaining SDKs or client libraries (strongly preferred)
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development, and an understanding of how less technical integrators use AI tools to build against APIs (a plus)
Experience with microservices, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability for distributed systems
Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, including event-driven, EDI, and webhook-based integrations (a plus)
Familiarity with freight, logistics, or TMS ecosystems (a plus)
Practical experience with design principles and patterns, and strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

Build proofs of concept for developer experience and platform capabilities that have not been solved at DAT before, and take the ones that prove out to production
Execute against our established architectures, refining them where they need it, and partner across Integrations, Product, Support, and Engineering to drive impact
Design, build, and maintain SDKs and developer tooling in TypeScript, treating integrators as customers
Build documentation, OpenAPI specifications, and examples that work well when integrators use AI coding assistants, and learn how our customers actually use AI so you can make them successful
Design and build API logging and monitoring that gives teams visibility into how integrations behave in production
Help shape lightweight governance for our customer-facing APIs (consistency, versioning, authentication, error handling, and deprecation), applied through an abstraction layer between our internal services and integrators
Anticipate and communicate roadblocks before they require escalation, and align stakeholders across teams on shared direction
Reduce toil and improve the reliability, cost, and performance of our integration services
Use AI-assisted development in your own work and share what works with your teammates
Write unit, integration, and functional tests, and guide others in doing the same
Participate in design and code reviews; write and maintain technical documentation
Review functional requirements, analyze their impact on schedule and software design, and translate business needs into technical specifications
Mentor engineers on and beyond your team
Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in API platforms and developer experience